It is easy to get caught up in the complexity or difficulty of the practice you perform. When you translate Yoga into a performance-based system it can give a sense of worth. This level of self-worth is unfortunately transient and is a detour on the path to personal growth. The role of the teacher in this situation is to help the student recognise this confusion and return to a more real state of constancy of practice.
Burnout is another consequence of an over enthusiastic approach to Yoga. Too much too soon can drain energy from career, relationships and social life. This is a total contradiction to the objective of Yoga practice which is to build the stamina for an improved quality of life. Yoga practice is a long term experience, it is not suited to the ‘quick fix’ and therefore usually kicks back when treated as such.
Most of the great Yogi masters, even the fathers of the current Hatha Yoga practice, were scholars of diverse and complex areas of life. Astrology, astronomy, physiology, psychology, the mind, and materialism. Yoga is more than simply a physical practice.
Yoga offers a total connection with the truest self. Our self-worth is truly developed through the love of self as it is. In seeing the perfection of what is, we can begin to develop a more universal perspective, expand our vision and begin to understand freedom. Being humble to a greater power opens our world to energy, vitality, love and the infinite. This is the objective of Yoga practice.
Burnout is another consequence of an over enthusiastic approach to Yoga. Too much too soon can drain energy from career, relationships and social life. This is a total contradiction to the objective of Yoga practice which is to build the stamina for an improved quality of life. Yoga practice is a long term experience, it is not suited to the ‘quick fix’ and therefore usually kicks back when treated as such.
Most of the great Yogi masters, even the fathers of the current Hatha Yoga practice, were scholars of diverse and complex areas of life. Astrology, astronomy, physiology, psychology, the mind, and materialism. Yoga is more than simply a physical practice.
Yoga offers a total connection with the truest self. Our self-worth is truly developed through the love of self as it is. In seeing the perfection of what is, we can begin to develop a more universal perspective, expand our vision and begin to understand freedom. Being humble to a greater power opens our world to energy, vitality, love and the infinite. This is the objective of Yoga practice.
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